The letter said that Abedin "has three family members–her late father, her mother and her brother–connected to Muslim Brotherhood operatives and/or organizations," referring to a study by the Center for Security Policy.

The five members of Congress wanted simple details on how Abedin attained a high-level security clearance.

Abedin's connections to the Muslim Brotherhood could be disqualifying in any legitimate background check.

Republican John Mc Cain publicly lashed out at Bachmann from the floor of the Senate, while at the same time admitting he had not read any of the documentation requesting the investigation. Attorney and prosecutor in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, has written extensively on Abedin's direct ties to terrorism: "It turns out, however, that Abedin herself is directly connected to Abdullah Omar Naseef, a major Muslim Brotherhood figure involved in the financing of al-Qaeda.A few of the so-called mainstream media outlets piled on with liberal narrative in furtherance of a longstanding vendetta against Bachmann. Abedin worked for a number of years at the Institute for Muslim Minority Affairs as assistant editor of its journal.Speaker of the House John Boehner was asked about the requests for investigations by the Inspectors' General. But from everything that I do know of her, she has a sterling character, and I think accusations like this being thrown around are pretty dangerous." Boehner admitted he hadn't read the letters requesting the investigations when he made his "dangerous" statement which some noted was itself dangerous. Huma Abedin is a part of a pattern of the Obama Administration working with organizations and people having direct ties to Islamist terrorism. The IMMA was founded by Naseef, who remained active in it for decades, overlapping for several years with Abedin.Huma Abedin (born 1976) is the deputy chief of staff to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the Obama Administration.She is a longtime confidante to Clinton starting as an intern in the White House dating back to 1996.

Abedin worked for Clinton's campaign for president in 2008.She is married to disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner.He is Jewish and Abedin was not ostracized by her family or by Muslim groups which raises questions as Muslim women are forbidden to marry non-Muslims.of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice and the Department of State seeking investigations into the Obama administration's involvement with the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group with a long history of jihadist violence.One of the letters in particular to Ambassador Harold W.Geisel, the Deputy Inspector General of the United States Department of State, used the Department's Deputy Chief of Staff, Huma Abedin, as an example of the undue influence.